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' Patented Apr. 7,1885.

' A UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK G. PAINTER, OF PHILADELPHIA,PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALFTO WALTER G. DABBS, OF SAME PLACE.

PROCESS OF PAINTING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 315,324, dated April 7,1885.

Application filed June 19, 1884. (No model.)

Supposing that in an imitation of an inlaid panel, of which Fig. l-is aportion, the white portion has to represent a surface of holly or otherwhite wood, the parts shaded with vertical lines to represent aslightly:

darker wood-oak for instance-the parts;

shaded with still darker horizontal lines to imitate a mahogany surface,and the groundsurface to imitate black-walnut or rose-wood, 25 I makethe desired imitation in the following manner. A panel of light wood ofappropriate size is first selected, and an outline of the design drawnor otherwise made thereon, after which I coat the portion of the designwhich is to represent the lightest wood with dammar varnish, and whenthis is dry I apply to the entire surface of the panel an oak stain;when it will have the appearance shown in Fig. 2, the ground-work beingimitation oak, and the varnish preventing the encroachment of the stainon the portion of the design which has to be white.

Those parts of the design in which an oak surface has to appear in thefinished panel are now coated with dammar varnish,and when this is dry amahogany stain is applied to the panel, and the result will be aground-work of a mahogany tint, with the portions of the pattern to beimitation of holly and those 4 in imitation of oak protected by thevarnish. (See Fig. 3.) The next step is to coat with the varnish thoseparts of the design in which a mahogany surface only has to appear, andwhen this is dry a black-walnut stain is applied to the entire surfaceof the panel. All

that is necessary now is to remove the varnish from the surface f thepanel, and this may be readily done b washingwith turpentine, and theresult will be the panel, Fig. 1, representing a dark walnut surfaceinlaid partly 5 5 with mahogany, partly with oak, and mainly with holly.

An imitation inlaid surface representing but two kinds of wood may bemade by simply coating a design with varnish on one kind of 6a wood,thenstaining the latter to imitate another kind of wood, and afterwardremoving the varnish; or a panel representing inlaid work of any desirednumber of different woods can be made in the manner described. 6 5

Woodstains of different tints and suitable for the carrying out of myinvention are purchasable in the market.

Hitherto I have referred to dammar varnish as a material for coatingthose portions of a 70, i

croachment of the stains and which can be removed without anydetrimental effect on these stains may be used.

I claim as my invention- 1. The mode herein desoribedof imitating inlaidwood-work, the said mode consisting in,

first, coating those portions of a surface ofwood which have torepresent inlaid work with a material impervious to wood-stainsandremovable by a solvent 5 second, applying to the surface of the wooda stain of any desired tint;

and, third, coating the surface with a solvent which does not affect thepermanency of the stain, but removes the said coating, and therebyexposes the surface of the wood whenever the said coating is applied,all substantially as set forth. 2. The mode herein described ofimitating inlaid wood-work, the said mode consisting in, first, coatingthose portions of a surface of wood which have to represent inlaid workof one kind of wood with a material impervious to wood-stainsandremovable by a solvent; second, applying to the surface of the wood astain of any desired tint; third, coating those portions of the stainedsurface which have to I60 represent another kind of inlaid wood with theimitations of different inlaid woodsex- [O the said removable material;fourth, impartposed, all substantially as set forth.

ing to the surface of the wood a stain differ- In testimony whereofIhave signed myname ing in tint from that first applied, and contintothis specification in the presence of two subuing these operations asmany times as the scribing witnesses.

different imitations of different kinds of inlaid FRED. G. PAINTER. woodmay demand, and, finally, applying the WVitnesses: solvents by which theseveral coatings of ma- JOHN M. CLAYTON,

terial impervious to stains are removed and HARRY SMITH.

